GRE Word List
LIONIZE
to treat as an object of great interest or importance
The meaning of the word lionize is to treat as an object of great interest or importance.
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|---|---|
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
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| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| encumber | weigh down |
| 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 |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
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| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
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