GRE Word List

ACQUIESCE

to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively

The meaning of the word acquiesce is to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively.

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capitulateto surrender often after negotiation of terms
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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
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liquidateto determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts)
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cacophonousmarked by cacophony : harsh-sounding
lewdobscene
validhaving legal efficacy or force
unisonidentity in musical pitch