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 |
|---|---|
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| dingy | dirty |
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |