GRE Word List
ATTRIBUTE
a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something
The meaning of the word attribute is a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| unkempt | not combed |
| cataclysm | flood |
| 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 |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |