GRE Word List
ADEPT
thoroughly proficient : expert
The meaning of the word adept is thoroughly proficient : expert.
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| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| 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 |
| sibling | sib |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| harass | exhaust |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |