GRE Word List
INEVITABLE
incapable of being avoided or evaded
The meaning of the word inevitable is incapable of being avoided or evaded.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |