GRE Word List
GENUFLECT
to bend the knee
The meaning of the word genuflect is to bend the knee.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| 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 |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |