GRE Word List
HYDROPHOBIA
rabies
The meaning of the word hydrophobia is rabies.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| inequity | injustice |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| 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 |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |