GRE Word List
ABYSS
an immeasurably deep gulf or great space
The meaning of the word abyss is an immeasurably deep gulf or great space.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| 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 |
| mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament (see temperament |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| shack | hut |