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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deviseto form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent
purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
cameoa gem carved in relief (see relief
colossalof, relating to, or resembling a colossus
sportivefrolicsome
unceremoniousnot ceremonious : informal
loutto bow in respect
ovationa ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
counterpartone of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate