GRE Word List
MALCONTENT
a discontented person:
The meaning of the word malcontent is a discontented person:.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| betray | to lead astray |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| 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 |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |