GRE Word List
BROOK
creek
The meaning of the word brook is creek.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| 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 |
| relent | to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| romp | one that romps |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| convoluted | having convolutions |