GRE Word List
CONJURE
to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
The meaning of the word conjure is to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| 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 |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |