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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| Word | Meaning |
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| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| gargantuan | tremendous in size, volume, or degree : gigantic |
| 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 |