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 |
|---|---|
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| dishonor | lack or loss of honor or reputation |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |