GRE Word List
REJOINDER
the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication
The meaning of the word rejoinder is the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| brink | edge |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| crossbreed | hybridize |