GRE Word List
MISDEMEANOR
a crime less serious than a felony (see felony
The meaning of the word misdemeanor is a crime less serious than a felony (see felony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |