GRE Word List
EXPANSIVE
having a capacity or a tendency to expand
The meaning of the word expansive is having a capacity or a tendency to expand.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| 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 |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |