GRE Word List
AMBIENCE
a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere
The meaning of the word ambience is a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| 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 |
| pending | during |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |