peremptory
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Insisting on immediate obedience and allowing no refusal or discussion.
The email was a single peremptory line ordering the whole team to reappear in the office by Monday.
Law adjective
Admitting of no refusal, delay or requirement to show cause; final and absolute.
Each side exercised its peremptory challenges to remove jurors without stating any reason.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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