GRE Word List
SANCTION
a formal decree
The meaning of the word sanction is a formal decree.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |