GRE Word List
GENESIS
the origin or coming into being of something
The meaning of the word genesis is the origin or coming into being of something.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| 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 |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |