GRE Word List

MISSIVE

a written communication : letter

The meaning of the word missive is a written communication : letter.

Random words

WordMeaning
traduceto expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation
beseechto beg for urgently or anxiously
sanctiona formal decree
decorumliterary and dramatic propriety : fitness
vigoractive bodily or mental strength or force
exculpateto clear from alleged fault or guilt
poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
underlyinglying beneath or below
casualsubject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance
repugnancethe quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent