GRE Word List
IRIDESCENT
having or exhibiting iridescence
The meaning of the word iridescent is having or exhibiting iridescence.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| 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 |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| dour | stern |