GRE Word List
BIENNIAL
occurring every two years
The meaning of the word biennial is occurring every two years.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| 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 |