GRE Word List
IMPERATIVE
not to be avoided or evaded : necessary
The meaning of the word imperative is not to be avoided or evaded : necessary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |