GRE Word List
AUGURY
divination from auspices (see auspice
The meaning of the word augury is divination from auspices (see auspice.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| 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 |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| homespun | spun or made at home |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |