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 |
|---|---|
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| defalcate | deduct |