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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |