GRE Word List
EMEND
to correct usually by textual alterations
The meaning of the word emend is to correct usually by textual alterations.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attire | to put garments on : dress |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| acetic | vinegary |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| groom | bridegroom |