GRE Word List
RESORT
one that affords aid or refuge : resource
The meaning of the word resort is one that affords aid or refuge : resource.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| 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 |