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 |
|---|---|
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| apprehend | arrest |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |