GRE Word List
INTERVENE
to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events
The meaning of the word intervene is to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| connoisseur | expert |
| gerontology | the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| arsenal | an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| 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 |