GRE Word List
MILLENNIUM
the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation
The meaning of the word millennium is the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| 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 |
| sage | one (such as a profound philosopher) distinguished for wisdom |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |