GRE Word List
ACCELERATE
to move faster : to gain speed
The meaning of the word accelerate is to move faster : to gain speed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| congruent | congruous |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| 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 |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |