GRE Word List
CHECKERED
marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials
The meaning of the word checkered is marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| 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 |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |