GRE Word List
JUNTA
a council or committee for political or governmental purposes
The meaning of the word junta is a council or committee for political or governmental purposes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| document | proof |