GRE Word List
DEPICT
to represent by or as if by a picture
The meaning of the word depict is to represent by or as if by a picture.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| 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 |