GRE Word List
ASKANCE
with disapproval or distrust : scornfully
The meaning of the word askance is with disapproval or distrust : scornfully.
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| 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 |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| irate | roused to ire |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
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| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |