GRE Word List
SUSTAIN
to give support or relief to
The meaning of the word sustain is to give support or relief to.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| actuary | clerk |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |