GRE Word List
IMMURE
to enclose within or as if within walls
The meaning of the word immure is to enclose within or as if within walls.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disclose | to make known or public |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| 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 |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |