GRE Word List
DETERMINATION
a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy
The meaning of the word determination is a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy.
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|---|---|
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| acidulous | somewhat acid or harsh in taste or manner |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |