GRE Word List
BELATED
delayed beyond the usual time
The meaning of the word belated is delayed beyond the usual time.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| faculty | ability |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| 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 |
| drudge | to do hard, menial, or monotonous work |