GRE Word List
HAP
happening
The meaning of the word hap is happening.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| 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 |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |