GRE Word List
REQUISITION
the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action
The meaning of the word requisition is the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |