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 |
|---|---|
| stringent | tight |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |