GRE Word List
RAFFLE
to engage in a raffle
The meaning of the word raffle is to engage in a raffle.
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| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| 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 |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
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