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 |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| harass | exhaust |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| leery | suspicious |
| shambles | a meat market |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |