GRE Word List
ERRANT
behaving wrongly
The meaning of the word errant is behaving wrongly.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| 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 |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |