GRE Word List
INDICATIVE
serving to indicate
The meaning of the word indicative is serving to indicate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| 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 |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| refrain | curb |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |