GRE Word List
AMELIORATE
to make better or more tolerable
The meaning of the word ameliorate is to make better or more tolerable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| etymology | the 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 |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |