GRE Word List
GRACIOUS
marked by kindness and courtesy
The meaning of the word gracious is marked by kindness and courtesy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| 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 |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| tawny | of the color tawny |