GRE Word List
CONSTITUTION
the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it
The meaning of the word constitution is the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |