GRE Word List
CAVALCADE
a procession (see procession
The meaning of the word cavalcade is a procession (see procession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| expatriate | banish |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| 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 |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| progeny | descendants |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |