GRE Word List
VICTUALS
food usable by people
The meaning of the word victuals is food usable by people.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |