GRE Word List
IMPINGE
encroach
The meaning of the word impinge is encroach.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| 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 |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |