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 |
|---|---|
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| clipper | one that clips something |