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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|---|---|
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| nurture | training |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |