GRE Word List
ABDICATE
to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function
The meaning of the word abdicate is to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |