GRE Word List
BETROTH
to promise to marry
The meaning of the word betroth is to promise to marry.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
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| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |