GRE Word List
EMBARK
to go on board a vehicle for transportation
The meaning of the word embark is to go on board a vehicle for transportation.
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| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| 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 |
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