GRE Word List
IRRETRIEVABLE
not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
The meaning of the word irretrievable is not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| 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 |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |