GRE Word List
ACKNOWLEDGE
to recognize the rights, authority, or status of
The meaning of the word acknowledge is to recognize the rights, authority, or status of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| severity | the quality or state of being severe : the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |