GRE Word List
SOVEREIGN
one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty
The meaning of the word sovereign is one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| onus | burden |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| whimsy | whim |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |