GRE Word List
MAGNITUDE
great size or extent
The meaning of the word magnitude is great size or extent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| 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 |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |