GRE Word List
RATIFY
to approve and sanction formally : confirm
The meaning of the word ratify is to approve and sanction formally : confirm.
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|---|---|
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |