GRE Word List
TRUNCATE
to shorten by or as if by cutting off
The meaning of the word truncate is to shorten by or as if by cutting off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| endue | provide |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |