GRE Word List
ELABORATION
planned or carried out with great care
The meaning of the word elaboration is planned or carried out with great care.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| clientele | a body of clients |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| license | permission to act |
| 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 |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |