GRE Word List
RECONCILE
to restore to friendship or harmony
The meaning of the word reconcile is to restore to friendship or harmony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |