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.
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equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
compelling | that compels: such as |
aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
cringe | to recoil in distaste |
virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |