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 |
|---|---|
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| orient | to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group |