GRE Word List

HORTATORY

hortative

The meaning of the word hortatory is hortative.

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WordMeaning
derisionthe use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
juridicalof or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge
enterprisea project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky
proscribeto publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state
uprightperpendicular
effervescencethe property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing
bemusedmarked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed
mayhemneedless or willful damage or violence
subterfugedeception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade
doctrinairestubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations