GRE Word List
WAIVE
to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily
The meaning of the word waive is to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |