GRE Word List
ESOTERIC
designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone
The meaning of the word esoteric is designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| 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 |
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |