GRE Word List
DISEMBARK
to remove to shore from a ship
The meaning of the word disembark is to remove to shore from a ship.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| 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 |