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 |
|---|---|
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| exegesis | exposition |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |