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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hazard | a source of danger |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |