GRE Word List
CENSORIOUS
marked by or given to censure (see censure
The meaning of the word censorious is marked by or given to censure (see censure.
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| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| 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 |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |