GRE Word List
LUNAR
crescent
The meaning of the word lunar is crescent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| 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 |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| fulcrum | prop |