GRE Word List
ADHERENT
one who adheres to something: such as
The meaning of the word adherent is one who adheres to something: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| irate | roused to ire |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| invalid | not valid: |
| 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 |
| sober | not intoxicated |