GRE Word List
CREDENTIAL
warranting credit or confidence
The meaning of the word credential is warranting credit or confidence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| 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 |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |