GRE Word List
ENTAIL
to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
The meaning of the word entail is to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |