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 |
|---|---|
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| 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 |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| calculated | apt |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| yore | time past and especially long past |