GRE Word List
FIGMENT
something made up or contrived
The meaning of the word figment is something made up or contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caucus | a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy |
| comestible | edible |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| comprehend | to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| 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 |
| obscure | dark |