GRE Word List
MERCURIAL
of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury
The meaning of the word mercurial is of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| 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 |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| executioner | one who executes |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |