GRE Word List
FUNCTIONARY
one who serves in a certain function
The meaning of the word functionary is one who serves in a certain function.
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| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |