GRE Word List
COY
marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
The meaning of the word coy is marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| 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 |
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |