GRE Word List
BLUES
low spirits : melancholy
The meaning of the word blues is low spirits : melancholy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedagogue | teacher |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| abeyance | a state of temporary inactivity : suspension |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| omnipotent | almighty |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| 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 |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |