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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| mulct | fine |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |