GRE Word List
INNOVATION
a new idea, method, or device : novelty
The meaning of the word innovation is a new idea, method, or device : novelty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| 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 |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |