GRE Word List
MEDDLESOME
given to meddling
The meaning of the word meddlesome is given to meddling.
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crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
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 |
senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |