GRE Word List
APPROPRIATE
especially suitable or compatible : fitting
The meaning of the word appropriate is especially suitable or compatible : fitting.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| 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 |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |