GRE Word List
BOUT
a spell or period of activity: such as
The meaning of the word bout is a spell or period of activity: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| skiff | any of various small boats |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| 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 |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| exhume | disinter |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| stench | stink |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |