GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| pilfer | steal |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| aria | air |
| nourish | nurture |
| 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 |