vindicate
to clear of blame or prove to be right
Word origin: From Latin vindicare, to claim or avenge.
Vindicate in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing vindicate in a sentence.
The new evidence finally vindicated the man wrongly imprisoned.
Later experiments vindicated the theory that colleagues had dismissed as fanciful a decade earlier.
Quick GRE check
3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?
Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Modern editors have softened many passages that earlier audiences accepted without protest, finding blank what their grandparents had regarded as merely robust and good-humored.
Using “vindicate” well
To vindicate is to clear of blame or to prove right, restoring a reputation or confirming a claim. It is the opposite of incriminating or condemning. Do not confuse it with vindictive, which means vengeful.
More GRE words starting with V
to waver indecisively between options or opinions
the inability to decide between different courses of action; wavering
total absence of thought, ideas, or substance
empty of meaning, substance, or intelligence
a person who roams from place to place with no fixed home
an unpredictable or capricious change or notion
a person who wanders without a settled home or work
excessively boastful and vain about one's achievements
Questions about “vindicate”
See these words the way the GRE tests them.
Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.