GRE Word List
ILLUMINATE
to supply or brighten with light
The meaning of the word illuminate is to supply or brighten with light.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| ignite | to set afire |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |