GRE Word List
MEDITATION
a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation
The meaning of the word meditation is a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation.
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| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| diva | prima donna |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| minuscule | very small |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| 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 |
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