GRE Word List
FACTOTUM
a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities
The meaning of the word factotum is a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| 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 |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| resign | relegate |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |