GRE Word List
INADVERTENTLY
unintentional
The meaning of the word inadvertently is unintentional.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| 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 |
| purported | reputed |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |