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 |
|---|---|
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| prank | trick |
| 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 |
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