GRE Word List
LUBRICATE
to make smooth or slippery
The meaning of the word lubricate is to make smooth or slippery.
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hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
pummel | pound |
torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
concatenate | linked together |
wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |