GRE Word List
MANUMIT
to release from slavery
The meaning of the word manumit is to release from slavery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |