GRE Word List
ARCADE
a long arched building or gallery
The meaning of the word arcade is a long arched building or gallery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| 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 |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| determinate | having defined limits |