GRE Word List
VETO
an authoritative prohibition : interdiction
The meaning of the word veto is an authoritative prohibition : interdiction.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |