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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |