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 |
|---|---|
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |