GRE Word List
OCCLUDE
to close up or block off : obstruct
The meaning of the word occlude is to close up or block off : obstruct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |