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 |
|---|---|
| premonitory | giving warning |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| clip | encompass |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| retribution | recompense |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |