GRE Word List
ADVERSITY
a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune
The meaning of the word adversity is a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune.
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| 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 |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| anemia | a condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in total volume |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| trample | tramp |