GRE Word List
ADORN
to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects
The meaning of the word adorn is to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects.
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| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
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| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| 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 |
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| trance | stupor |
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