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 |
|---|---|
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |