GRE Word List
SEETHE
to suffer violent internal excitement
The meaning of the word seethe is to suffer violent internal excitement.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verge | brink |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| distend | extend |