GRE Word List
OBLIGATORY
binding in law or conscience
The meaning of the word obligatory is binding in law or conscience.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| chafe | irritate |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| encumber | weigh down |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |