GRE Word List
BROACH
brooch
The meaning of the word broach is brooch.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| aperture | an opening or open space : hole |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| 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 |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |