GRE Word List
LOG
a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree
The meaning of the word log is a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree.
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| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| 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 |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
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