GRE Word List
DISPARATE
markedly distinct in quality or character
The meaning of the word disparate is markedly distinct in quality or character.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| 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 |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| beeline | a straight direct course |