GRE Word List
HEW
to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument
The meaning of the word hew is to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| 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 |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |