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 |
|---|---|
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| apprehend | arrest |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| atheistic | a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |