GRE Word List
DENIZEN
inhabitant
The meaning of the word denizen is inhabitant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| 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 |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |