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 |
|---|---|
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |