GRE Word List
INTERROGATE
to question formally and systematically
The meaning of the word interrogate is to question formally and systematically.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decipher | decode |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| 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 |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |