GRE Word List
RENDER
to melt down
The meaning of the word render is to melt down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| curator | a person who oversees or manages a place (such as a museum or zoo) that offers exhibits |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |