GRE Word List
RECTIFY
to set right : remedy
The meaning of the word rectify is to set right : remedy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |