GRE Word List
ADJUTANT
a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence
The meaning of the word adjutant is a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| overthrow | overturn |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |