GRE Word List
BALM
a balsamic (see balsamic
The meaning of the word balm is a balsamic (see balsamic.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| 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 |
| cryptic | secret |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |