GRE Word List
VALIDATE
to make legally valid : ratify
The meaning of the word validate is to make legally valid : ratify.
Random words
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| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |