GRE Word List
MAGNITUDE
great size or extent
The meaning of the word magnitude is great size or extent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| 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 |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| overwhelm | upset |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| brackish | somewhat salty |