GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| juncture | a point of time |
| debonair | suave |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| mogul | an Indian Muslim of or descended from one of several conquering groups of Mongol, Turkish, and Persian origin |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| 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 |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
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