GRE Word List
HETEROGENEOUS
consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed
The meaning of the word heterogeneous is consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| 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 |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| spoof | deceive |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |