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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hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
podiuma low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as
dotagea state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness
filialof, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter
relican object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr
loiterto delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle
sanctiona formal decree
amissin a mistaken way : wrongly
discordlack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
gorgea narrow passage through land