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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| gyroscope | a 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 |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |