GRE Word List
ACETIC
vinegary
The meaning of the word acetic is vinegary.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| 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 |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| forebears | ancestor |