GRE Word List
MEDIATE
occupying a middle position
The meaning of the word mediate is occupying a middle position.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| juncture | a point of time |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |