GRE Word List
INCRUSTATION
a crust or hard coating
The meaning of the word incrustation is a crust or hard coating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| 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 |