GRE Word List
DEARTH
scarcity that makes dear
The meaning of the word dearth is scarcity that makes dear.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| 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 |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| pedagogue | teacher |