GRE Word List
ABSTRACT
disassociated from any specific instance
The meaning of the word abstract is disassociated from any specific instance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| 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 |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| edifice | building |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| canny | clever |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |