GRE Word List
REFERENDUM
the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative
The meaning of the word referendum is the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative.
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| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |