GRE Word List

AMEND

to put right

The meaning of the word amend is to put right.

Random words

WordMeaning
precipitantprecipitate
empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
grandiloquenta lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
incontrovertiblenot open to question : indisputable
indicessigns; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index
brusquemarkedly short and abrupt
enunciateto make a definite or systematic statement of
scapegoata goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur
raga waste piece of cloth