GRE Word List
CLIQUE
a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons
The meaning of the word clique is a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| onus | burden |
| 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 |