GRE Word List
OBLIGATORY
binding in law or conscience
The meaning of the word obligatory is binding in law or conscience.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |