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 |
|---|---|
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |