GRE Word List
CONVERT
to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another
The meaning of the word convert is to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another.
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| epaulet | something that ornaments or protects the shoulder: such as |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| 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 |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |