GRE Word List
AMENITIES
something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment
The meaning of the word amenities is something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| warranted | sanction |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| demise | death |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| 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 |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |