GRE Word List
QUORUM
a select group
The meaning of the word quorum is a select group.
Random words
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opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
din | a loud continued noise |
pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |
grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
harass | exhaust |
balk | to refuse abruptly |