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 |
|---|---|
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| 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 |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |