GRE Word List
SANCTION
a formal decree
The meaning of the word sanction is a formal decree.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |