GRE Word List
MEGALOMANIA
a mania (see mania
The meaning of the word megalomania is a mania (see mania.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| 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 |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |