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 |
|---|---|
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
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| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
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