GRE Word List
COUNTERMAND
to revoke (a command) by a contrary order
The meaning of the word countermand is to revoke (a command) by a contrary order.
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Word | Meaning |
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malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |
pundit | pandit |
compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
encompass | include |
indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |