GRE Word List
VETO
an authoritative prohibition : interdiction
The meaning of the word veto is an authoritative prohibition : interdiction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |