GRE Word List
RUBRIC
an authoritative rule
The meaning of the word rubric is an authoritative rule.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |