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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| 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 |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| paradigm | example |