GRE Word List

INTRINSIC

belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing

The meaning of the word intrinsic is belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.

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interdicta Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district
grumbleto mutter in discontent
tensioninner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion
unctuoushaving, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality
saturnineborn under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn
disinclinationa preference for avoiding something : slight aversion
abstemiousmarked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
gyroscopea 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
grievancea cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance
simianof, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes