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adjective
1.
required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
noun
2.
something requisite; a necessary quality, thing, etc.
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Requisite
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | requisite |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | required, necessary; indispensable |
| Etymology: | Latin requirere 'to need' |
| Main Entry: | requisite |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | something required, necessary, or indispensable |
| Etymology: | Latin requirere 'to need' |
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Word Origin & History
requisite
1472, from L. requisitus, pp. of requirere (see require). The noun requisition is attested from 1503, from O.Fr. requisition, from L. requisitionem (nom. requisitio) "a searching," from requisitus; the verb is recorded from 1837.
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