GRE Word List
REDRESS
to set right : remedy
The meaning of the word redress is to set right : remedy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contest | strive |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |