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 |
|---|---|
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| minuscule | very small |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |