GRE Word List
PREROGATIVE
an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as
The meaning of the word prerogative is an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |