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 |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
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| upright | perpendicular |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |