GRE Word List
MASTICATE
to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew
The meaning of the word masticate is to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| arsenal | an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| pedestrian | commonplace |