GRE Word List
REDUCE
to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate
The meaning of the word reduce is to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| 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 |
| dire | exciting horror |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |