GRE Word List
INTIMIDATE
to make timid or fearful : frighten
The meaning of the word intimidate is to make timid or fearful : frighten.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |