GRE Word List
CREDO
a guiding belief or principle : creed
The meaning of the word credo is a guiding belief or principle : creed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| 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 |
| giddy | dizzy |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |