GRE Word List
AESTHETIC
of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful
The meaning of the word aesthetic is of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| 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 |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |