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 |
|---|---|
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |