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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dally | to act playfully |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |