GRE Word List

HAP

happening

The meaning of the word hap is happening.

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promiscuoushaving or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners
translucentpermitting the passage of light:
touchymarked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation
immobilitynot moving : motionless
stinta period of time spent at a particular activity
misnomerthe misnaming of a person in a legal instrument
embellishto make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate
understateto represent as less than is the case
gyroscopea 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
equilibriuma state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise