GRE Word List

DISSENSION

disagreement

The meaning of the word dissension is disagreement.

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WordMeaning
marredto ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil
indicessigns; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index
ellipticalof, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse
championa winner of first prize or first place in competition
slapdashhaphazard
salvagecompensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck
scoffan expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe
frivolousof little weight or importance
piousmarked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship
gyroscopea 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