GRE Word List
COMMANDEER
to compel to perform military service
The meaning of the word commandeer is to compel to perform military service.
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anthropologist | the science of human beings |
indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
pendant | something suspended: such as |
strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
knoll | a small round hill : mound |
throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
apparent | open to view : visible |