GRE Word List
EDDY
a current of water or air running contrary to the main current
The meaning of the word eddy is a current of water or air running contrary to the main current.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| aver | to declare positively |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |