GRE Word List
SANCTION
a formal decree
The meaning of the word sanction is a formal decree.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| slake | subside |