GRE Word List
REHABILITATE
to restore to a former capacity : reinstate
The meaning of the word rehabilitate is to restore to a former capacity : reinstate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| leave-taking | departure |