GRE Word List
EXORBITANT
not coming within the scope of the law
The meaning of the word exorbitant is not coming within the scope of the law.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| 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 |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |