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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| categorical | absolute |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| 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 |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |