GRE Word List
RENOVATE
to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding)
The meaning of the word renovate is to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding).
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| Word | Meaning |
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| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |