GRE Word List
HULL
the outer covering of a fruit or seed
The meaning of the word hull is the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| 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 |