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 |
|---|---|
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| 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 |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |