GRE Word List
DISSENSION
disagreement
The meaning of the word dissension is disagreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| 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 |