GRE Word List
INCRUSTATION
a crust or hard coating
The meaning of the word incrustation is a crust or hard coating.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| 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 |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| quisling | traitor |