GRE Word List
HAVEN
harbor
The meaning of the word haven is harbor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| trance | stupor |
| 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 |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| speck | a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay |