GRE Word List
MANDATE
an authoritative command
The meaning of the word mandate is an authoritative command.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |