GRE Word List
GLOW
to shine with or as if with an intense heat
The meaning of the word glow is to shine with or as if with an intense heat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| 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 |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |