GRE Word List
CONCEPTION
the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both
The meaning of the word conception is the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| 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 |
| seemly | good-looking |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |