GRE Word List
RECTIFY
to set right : remedy
The meaning of the word rectify is to set right : remedy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| privy | private |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| contrive | devise |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |