GRE Word List
FRIGID
intensely cold
The meaning of the word frigid is intensely cold.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| homespun | spun or made at home |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| 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 |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| recast | to cast again |