GRE Word List
ATYPICAL
not typical : irregular
The meaning of the word atypical is not typical : irregular.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conundrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
| exhume | disinter |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| pan | a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking) |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| 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 |