GRE Word List
BEHOOVE
to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for
The meaning of the word behoove is to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |