GRE Word List
COVENANT
a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact
The meaning of the word covenant is a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| ultimate | last in a progression or series : final |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |