GRE Word List
INTERMITTENT
coming and going at intervals : not continuous
The meaning of the word intermittent is coming and going at intervals : not continuous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| wanton | merciless |
| 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 |
| scotch | scottish |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |