GRE Word List
MAVERICK
an unbranded range animal
The meaning of the word maverick is an unbranded range animal.
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| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| 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 |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| refulgent | a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance |