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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |