GRE Word List
FLAGRANT
conspicuously offensive
The meaning of the word flagrant is conspicuously offensive.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| 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 |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |