GRE Word List
ORDAIN
to invest (see invest
The meaning of the word ordain is to invest (see invest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |