GRE Word List
INTERROGATE
to question formally and systematically
The meaning of the word interrogate is to question formally and systematically.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
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| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| adamant | unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| 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 |
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| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
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| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |