GRE Word List
DESCRY
to catch sight of
The meaning of the word descry is to catch sight of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retiring | reserved |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| 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 |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| refulgent | a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |