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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| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| 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 |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
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