GRE Word List
ENACT
to establish by legal and authoritative act
The meaning of the word enact is to establish by legal and authoritative act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| teetotalism | the principle or practice of complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |