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 |
|---|---|
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
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| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |