GRE Word List
HORTATORY
hortative
The meaning of the word hortatory is hortative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| potentate | ruler |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| lode | waterway |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |