GRE Word List

APOTHEOSIS

the perfect form or example of something : quintessence

The meaning of the word apotheosis is the perfect form or example of something : quintessence.

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asinineextremely or utterly foolish or silly
witherto become dry and sapless
gyroscopea 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
mountebanka person who sells quack medicines from a platform
infidelone who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity
consolidationthe act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated
centripetalproceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis
rantto talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
insuperableincapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved
paradigmexample