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 |
|---|---|
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| throes | pang |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |