GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| 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 |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |