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 |
|---|---|
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| concur | to express agreement |