GRE Word List
EFFERVESCENCE
the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing
The meaning of the word effervescence is the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| queasy | causing nausea |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| 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 |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |