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 |
|---|---|
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| lunar | crescent |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |