GRE Word List
REVERT
to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject)
The meaning of the word revert is to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| overthrow | overturn |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |