GRE Word List

LEGATO

in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones)

The meaning of the word legato is in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones).

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WordMeaning
contraveneto go or act contrary to : violate
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archivesa place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved
drudgerydull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor
quaintpleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar
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miscreantunbelieving
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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