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 |
|---|---|
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| retrench | cut down |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |