GRE Word List
VETO
an authoritative prohibition : interdiction
The meaning of the word veto is an authoritative prohibition : interdiction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| welter | writhe |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |