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 |
|---|---|
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |