GRE Word List
AMEND
to put right
The meaning of the word amend is to put right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frail | easily led into evil |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| whittle | a large knife |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |