GRE Word List
INAUGURATE
to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies
The meaning of the word inaugurate is to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| encumber | weigh down |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |