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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| 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 |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |