GRE Word List
DEFINITIVE
serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation
The meaning of the word definitive is serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
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| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |