GRE Word List
ELASTIC
capable of recovering size and shape after deformation
The meaning of the word elastic is capable of recovering size and shape after deformation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| 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 |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |