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 |
|---|---|
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| magnitude | great size or extent |