GRE Word List
CREST
a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration
The meaning of the word crest is a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| blackball | to vote against |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| 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 |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |