GRE Word List
CENTURION
an officer commanding a Roman century
The meaning of the word centurion is an officer commanding a Roman century.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| dominate | rule |
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |