GRE Word List
EMBROIDER
to ornament with needlework
The meaning of the word embroider is to ornament with needlework.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lax | loose |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| 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 |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |