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 |
|---|---|
| spate | freshet |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| encumber | weigh down |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |