GRE Word List
SANCTION
a formal decree
The meaning of the word sanction is a formal decree.
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potable | suitable for drinking |
graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
upright | perpendicular |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
symmetry | balanced proportions |
dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
distant | separated in space : away |
matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |