GRE Word List
GAINSAY
to declare to be untrue or invalid
The meaning of the word gainsay is to declare to be untrue or invalid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| 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 |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |