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 |
|---|---|
| tome | book |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
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| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |