GRE Word List
BETROTH
to promise to marry
The meaning of the word betroth is to promise to marry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |