GRE Word List
LATERAL
of or relating to the side
The meaning of the word lateral is of or relating to the side.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
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| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| 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 |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |