GRE Word List
AMEND
to put right
The meaning of the word amend is to put right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fancier | one that has a special liking or interest |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |