GRE Word List
MAROON
a dark red
The meaning of the word maroon is a dark red.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| 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 |