GRE Word List
ATTENTIVE
mindful
The meaning of the word attentive is mindful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| 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 |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |