GRE Word List
COVENANT
a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact
The meaning of the word covenant is a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact.
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|---|---|
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
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| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
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| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
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| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
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