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 |
|---|---|
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| scion | descendant |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |