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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| savant | a person of learning |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |