GRE Word List
DISCREDIT
to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve
The meaning of the word discredit is to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |