GRE Word List

AVENGE

to take vengeance for or on behalf of

The meaning of the word avenge is to take vengeance for or on behalf of.

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WordMeaning
dooma law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England
prelatean ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank
validhaving legal efficacy or force
shearto cut off the hair from
snubto check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke
execrabledeserving to be execrated : detestable
snickerto laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
depositiona testifying especially before a court
subterfugedeception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade