GRE Word List
MANACLE
a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff
The meaning of the word manacle is a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |