GRE Word List
CRAFT
skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity
The meaning of the word craft is skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| archaeology | the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities |
| 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 |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |