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 |
|---|---|
| lunar | crescent |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |