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 |
|---|---|
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| rotunda | a round building |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |