GRE Word List
IDLE
not occupied or employed: such as
The meaning of the word idle is not occupied or employed: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |