GRE Word List
FILCH
to steal secretly or casually
The meaning of the word filch is to steal secretly or casually.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| 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 |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| warranted | sanction |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |