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
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coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
parley | to speak with another : confer |
polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
irate | roused to ire |
cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |