GRE Word List
REBATE
to reduce the force or activity of : diminish
The meaning of the word rebate is to reduce the force or activity of : diminish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| deify | to make a god of |
| osseous | bony |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
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