GRE Word List
FOPPISH
foolish
The meaning of the word foppish is foolish.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artful | performed with or showing art or skill |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| 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 |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |