GRE Word List
CLOT
a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum)
The meaning of the word clot is a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| 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 |
| dire | exciting horror |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| cipher | zero |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |