GRE Word List
MANUMIT
to release from slavery
The meaning of the word manumit is to release from slavery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| finished | entirely done |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |