GRE Word List
FETISH
an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner
The meaning of the word fetish is an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| lofty | elevated in character and spirit : noble |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| postulate | demand |
| 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 |
| comestible | edible |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |