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 |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| hardy | bold |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| warranted | sanction |
| airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| bulk | magnitude |