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 |
|---|---|
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| duration | continuance in time |
| flair | a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something : talent |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |