GRE Word List
BOTCH
an inflammatory sore
The meaning of the word botch is an inflammatory sore.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| comestible | edible |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| 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 |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
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