GRE Word List
RECTIFY
to set right : remedy
The meaning of the word rectify is to set right : remedy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| whittle | a large knife |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| paltry | inferior |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |