GRE Word List
DEGRADATION
the act or process of degrading
The meaning of the word degradation is the act or process of degrading.
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| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| demure | reserved |
| 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 |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |