GRE Word List
MANDATE
an authoritative command
The meaning of the word mandate is an authoritative command.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| rift | fissure |