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 |
|---|---|
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |