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 |
|---|---|
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |