GRE Word List
AMEND
to put right
The meaning of the word amend is to put right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| leave-taking | departure |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |