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 |
|---|---|
| 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) |