GRE Word List
SUBLIMATE
sublime
The meaning of the word sublimate is sublime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| 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 |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| predilection | an established preference for something |