GRE Word List
EPAULET
something that ornaments or protects the shoulder: such as
The meaning of the word epaulet is something that ornaments or protects the shoulder: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| 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 |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |