GRE Word List
HAZARD
a source of danger
The meaning of the word hazard is a source of danger.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| 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 |
| eulogistic | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |