GRE Word List
ANTHROPOID
any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets)
The meaning of the word anthropoid is any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appease | pacify |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| retiring | reserved |
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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 |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |