GRE Word List
INCONTINENT
not continent: such as
The meaning of the word incontinent is not continent: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| pan | a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking) |
| 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 |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |