GRE Word List
CREDULITY
readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
The meaning of the word credulity is readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| 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 |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |