GRE Word List
CRAVE
to ask for earnestly : beg
The meaning of the word crave is to ask for earnestly : beg.
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|---|---|
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| 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 |
| noisome | noxious |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |