GRE Word List
GLARE
to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light
The meaning of the word glare is to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| 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 |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |