GRE Word List
IMMOBILITY
not moving : motionless
The meaning of the word immobility is not moving : motionless.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| 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 |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| delve | excavate |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |