GRE Word List
GLOSSY
having a surface luster or brightness
The meaning of the word glossy is having a surface luster or brightness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| 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 |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| lofty | elevated in character and spirit : noble |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |