GRE Word List
ATONE
to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome
The meaning of the word atone is to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |