GRE Word List
LICENSE
permission to act
The meaning of the word license is permission to act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nourishment | food |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| comprehensive | covering completely or broadly : inclusive |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| sentinel | sentry |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |