GRE Word List
GAIT
a manner of walking or moving on foot
The meaning of the word gait is a manner of walking or moving on foot.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| unkempt | not combed |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |