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 |
|---|---|
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |