GRE Word List
TIRADE
a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language
The meaning of the word tirade is a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| relent | to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| 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 |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |