GRE Word List
SUBSTANTIATE
to give substance or form to : embody
The meaning of the word substantiate is to give substance or form to : embody.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| nib | bill |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |