GRE Word List
FLOTSAM
floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo
The meaning of the word flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo.
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| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| arid | excessively dry |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| 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 |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
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