GRE Word List
FLORA
a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
The meaning of the word flora is a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| 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 |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| cryptic | secret |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |