GRE Word List
ABSOLVE
to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt
The meaning of the word absolve is to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| skiff | any of various small boats |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |