GRE Word List
MENIAL
a person doing menial work
The meaning of the word menial is a person doing menial work.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| 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 |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |