GRE Word List
CORPUS
the body of a human or animal especially when dead
The meaning of the word corpus is the body of a human or animal especially when dead.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| 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 |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |