GRE Word List
MANGY
affected with or resulting from mange
The meaning of the word mangy is affected with or resulting from mange.
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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 |
| judicious | having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| executor | one who executes something |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |