GRE Word List
AVOW
to declare assuredly
The meaning of the word avow is to declare assuredly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| quisling | traitor |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |