GRE Word List
DISSENSION
disagreement
The meaning of the word dissension is disagreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| 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 |
| pugilist | fighter |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |