GRE Word List
VENERATE
to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference
The meaning of the word venerate is to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference.
Random words
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poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
duration | continuance in time |
modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
quietude | a quiet state : repose |
inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
rivulet | a small stream |
fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |