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 |
|---|---|
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |