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 |
|---|---|
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |