GRE Word List
MARROW
bone marrow
The meaning of the word marrow is bone marrow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| 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 |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |