GRE Word List
AMEND
to put right
The meaning of the word amend is to put right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| sentinel | sentry |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| encompass | include |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |