GRE Word List
MANDATORY
required by a law or rule : obligatory
The meaning of the word mandatory is required by a law or rule : obligatory.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |