GRE Word List
ENFRANCHISE
to set free (as from slavery)
The meaning of the word enfranchise is to set free (as from slavery).
Random words
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accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
comprehend | to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of |
misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |