GRE Word List
BOURGEOIS
of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
The meaning of the word bourgeois is of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| 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 |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |