GRE Word List
ERRANT
behaving wrongly
The meaning of the word errant is behaving wrongly.
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stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
minatory | having a menacing quality |
dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
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 |