GRE Word List
IMMOLATE
to kill or destroy especially by fire
The meaning of the word immolate is to kill or destroy especially by fire.
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|---|---|
| convene | to come together in a body |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| niggle | trifle |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
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| 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 |
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |