GRE Word List
GLOSS
a surface luster or brightness : shine
The meaning of the word gloss is a surface luster or brightness : shine.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| 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 |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| skiff | any of various small boats |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| throes | pang |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |