GRE Word List
ARRAIGN
to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge
The meaning of the word arraign is to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| amend | to put right |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |