GRE Word List
RECONCILE
to restore to friendship or harmony
The meaning of the word reconcile is to restore to friendship or harmony.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |