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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| ovation | a 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 |
| mange | any 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 |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |