GRE Word List

ENFRANCHISE

to set free (as from slavery)

The meaning of the word enfranchise is to set free (as from slavery).

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denouementthe final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
welta strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together
dooma law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England