GRE Word List
EQUITY
justice according to natural law or right
The meaning of the word equity is justice according to natural law or right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| conflagration | fire |
| boor | peasant |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| 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 |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| demented | mad |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |