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 |
|---|---|
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| betray | to lead astray |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| dilute | attenuate |