GRE Word List
MANDATE
an authoritative command
The meaning of the word mandate is an authoritative command.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |