GRE Word List
CHOREOGRAPHY
the art of symbolically representing dancing
The meaning of the word choreography is the art of symbolically representing dancing.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| 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 |
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |