GRE Word List
FIGMENT
something made up or contrived
The meaning of the word figment is something made up or contrived.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| 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 |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| flighty | swift |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |