GRE Word List
DOMINANT
commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others
The meaning of the word dominant is commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others.
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| convention | agreement |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |