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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| Word | Meaning |
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| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| 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 |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |