GRE Word List
BELABOR
to attack verbally
The meaning of the word belabor is to attack verbally.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| 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 |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |