GRE Word List
GASTRONOMY
the art or science of good eating
The meaning of the word gastronomy is the art or science of good eating.
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| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| polity | political organization |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| 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 |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |