GRE Word List
GRADUATE
to receive an academic degree or diploma
The meaning of the word graduate is to receive an academic degree or diploma.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| functional | of, connected with, or being a function |
| fester | to generate pus |