GRE Word List
BEHOLDEN
being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted
The meaning of the word beholden is being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plait | pleat |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| cryptic | secret |
| 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 |
| edifice | building |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |