GRE Word List
DESULTORY
marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
The meaning of the word desultory is marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| 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 |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |