GRE Word List
EPOCH
an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development
The meaning of the word epoch is an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development.
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| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| 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 |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |