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 |
|---|---|
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| convention | agreement |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| whimsy | whim |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |