GRE Word List
BAREFACED
having the face uncovered:
The meaning of the word barefaced is having the face uncovered:.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| 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 |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |