GRE Word List
MACERATE
to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting
The meaning of the word macerate is to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| cohorts | companion |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |