GRE Word List
CRUST
the hardened exterior or surface part of bread
The meaning of the word crust is the hardened exterior or surface part of bread.
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| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| relent | to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| 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 |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |