GRE Word List
LEGEND
a story coming down from the past
The meaning of the word legend is a story coming down from the past.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| zealot | a zealous person |
| contest | strive |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| 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 |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |