GRE Word List
ATTEST
to affirm to be true or genuine
The meaning of the word attest is to affirm to be true or genuine.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| slipshod | wearing loose shoes or slippers |
| leave-taking | departure |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |