GRE Word List
CONDONE
to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless
The meaning of the word condone is to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless.
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Word | Meaning |
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antecede | precede |
quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
effusion | an act of effusing |
inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |