GRE Word List
REMISSION
the act or process of remitting
The meaning of the word remission is the act or process of remitting.
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|---|---|
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| fluke | flatfish |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| slew | a large number |