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 |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| decipher | decode |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |