GRE Word List
PATRONIZE
to act as patron of : provide aid or support for
The meaning of the word patronize is to act as patron of : provide aid or support for.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |