GRE Word List

BETROTH

to promise to marry

The meaning of the word betroth is to promise to marry.

Word	Meaning
increment	the amount or degree by which something changes
compress	to press or squeeze together
altercation	a noisy, heated, angry dispute
conifer	any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit
hypercritical	meticulously or excessively critical
duplicity	contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action
adhere	to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing
volatile	characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
winnow	to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air
truncate	to shorten by or as if by cutting off