GRE Word List
CIVIL
of or relating to citizens
The meaning of the word civil is of or relating to citizens.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| collected | gathered together |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| 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 |
| connoisseur | expert |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |