GRE Word List

ACETIC

vinegary

The meaning of the word acetic is vinegary.

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insubstantialnot substantial: such as
instigateto goad or urge forward : provoke
importuneto press or urge with troublesome persistence
vauntedhighly or widely praised or boasted about
baskto lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere
gyroscopea 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
librettothe text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater
lugubriousmournful
flinchto withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince
forebearsancestor