GRE Word List
EQUIPOISE
a state of equilibrium
The meaning of the word equipoise is a state of equilibrium.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |