GRE Word List
LOPSIDED
leaning to one side
The meaning of the word lopsided is leaning to one side.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| 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 |
| brazen | made of brass |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |