GRE Word List
AGAPE
wide open : gaping
The meaning of the word agape is wide open : gaping.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| ventilate | to expose to air and especially to a current of fresh air for purifying, curing, or refreshing |
| 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 |
| redress | to set right : remedy |