GRE Word List
CUBICLE
a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room
The meaning of the word cubicle is a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| 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 |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |