GRE Word List
TEND
to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce
The meaning of the word tend is to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| prattle | prate |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| fell | skin |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |