GRE Word List
AMEND
to put right
The meaning of the word amend is to put right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| 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 |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| lewd | obscene |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |