GRE Word List
OPTIONAL
involving an option : not compulsory
The meaning of the word optional is involving an option : not compulsory.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| mandate | an authoritative command |