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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subsideto sink or fall to the bottom : settle
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collateto compare critically
consortassociate
indignityan act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult
egregiousconspicuous
etymologythe 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
clangora resounding clang or medley of clangs
expedientsuitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance