GRE Word List
AMICABLE
characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable
The meaning of the word amicable is characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| enhance | heighten |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |