GRE Word List
AMEND
to put right
The meaning of the word amend is to put right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| flighty | swift |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |