GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| 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 |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| doddering | feeble |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |