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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gyroscopea 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
judicioushaving, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment
unfetterto free from fetters
gauntexcessively thin and angular
afterlifean existence after death
smatteringsuperficial piecemeal knowledge
executorone who executes something
barragea dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation
cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
unassailablenot assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question