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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| eventual | contingent |