GRE Word List
HAP
happening
The meaning of the word hap is happening.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| expatriate | banish |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| 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 |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |