GRE Word List
PROPAGATE
to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction
The meaning of the word propagate is to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |