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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |