GRE Word List
COMMANDEER
to compel to perform military service
The meaning of the word commandeer is to compel to perform military service.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |