GRE Word List
CRITERIA
a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based
The meaning of the word criteria is a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| 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 |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |