GRE Word List
MACERATE
to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting
The meaning of the word macerate is to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting.
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| 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 |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
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