GRE Word List
OPTIONAL
involving an option : not compulsory
The meaning of the word optional is involving an option : not compulsory.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |