GRE Word List
ARSENAL
an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment
The meaning of the word arsenal is an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| 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 |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| kismet | fate |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |