GRE Word List
ATTIRE
to put garments on : dress
The meaning of the word attire is to put garments on : dress.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| 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 |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| warranted | sanction |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |