GRE Word List
EXORCISE
to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration
The meaning of the word exorcise is to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| 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 |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |