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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| Word | Meaning |
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| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| 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 |
| delve | excavate |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |