GRE Word List
CRITERIA
a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based
The meaning of the word criteria is a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| docile | easily taught |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| violate | break |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |