GRE Word List
INTERIM
an intervening time : interval
The meaning of the word interim is an intervening time : interval.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| amity | friendship |
| 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 |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
