GRE Word List
AUTHORITATIVE
having, marked by, or proceeding from authority
The meaning of the word authoritative is having, marked by, or proceeding from authority.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| ventriloquist | one who uses or is skilled in ventriloquism |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| 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 |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |