GRE Word List
IMPERATIVE
not to be avoided or evaded : necessary
The meaning of the word imperative is not to be avoided or evaded : necessary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| 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 |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| shack | hut |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |