GRE Word List
BREACH
infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard
The meaning of the word breach is infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verge | brink |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| 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 |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
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| steep | lofty |