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 |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |