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 |
|---|---|
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| dominate | rule |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |