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 |
|---|---|
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| 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 |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |