GRE Word List
EARTHY
of, relating to, or consisting of earth
The meaning of the word earthy is of, relating to, or consisting of earth.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| significant | having meaning |
| 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 |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |