单词 | requisite |
释义 | requisite (once / 551 pages) adjn Requisite is a formal or fancy word for indispensable. During your punk phase, you refused to leave the house without the requisite leather jacket, black boots, and mohawk. To remember this word, notice how similar it is to required. College students looking to sign up for classes they find interesting often bump up against the word prerequisite, which refers to a list of classes they will need to take before the one they're interested in. WORD FAMILYrequisite: prerequisite, requisiteness, requisites+/prerequisite: prerequisites USAGE EXAMPLESAdmittedly, many of us in media-land tend to lockstep to the same films, or throw in a requisite foreign outlier. Los Angeles Times(Dec 26, 2016) If the company were to secure the requisite permits to operate — and that’s a big if — it’s not clear that it would succeed. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) J Street said it “vehemently opposed” the nomination, cautioning that he lacked the requisite diplomatic or policy credentials. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) 1adj necessary for relief or supply Syn needed, needful, required necessary absolutely essential 2n anything indispensable a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper essential, necessary, necessity, requirement inessential, nonessential anything that is not essential desideratum something desired as a necessity musta necessary or essential thing need, wantanything that is necessary but lacking thing a separate and self-contained entity |
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