GRE Word List
MINUTE
the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds
The meaning of the word minute is the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dynamo | generator |
| quarry | game |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| condign | deserved |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| 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 |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |