GRE Word List
FETE
festival
The meaning of the word fete is festival.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| 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 |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |