GRE Word List
LIMP
to walk lamely
The meaning of the word limp is to walk lamely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| 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 |
| demerit | offense |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |