GRE Word List
EMANCIPATE
to free from restraint, control, or the power of another
The meaning of the word emancipate is to free from restraint, control, or the power of another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| microcosm | a little world |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |