GRE Word List
DECREE
an order usually having the force of law
The meaning of the word decree is an order usually having the force of law.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| pliant | pliable |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| impinge | encroach |