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 |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |