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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| irate | roused to ire |
| tempo | the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |