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 |
|---|---|
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |