GRE Word List
LUBRICATE
to make smooth or slippery
The meaning of the word lubricate is to make smooth or slippery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |