GRE Word List
BROCHURE
pamphlet
The meaning of the word brochure is pamphlet.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| poise | balance |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |