GRE Word List
MIRE
wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)
The meaning of the word mire is wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| spate | freshet |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| condole | grieve |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| 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 |
| paltry | inferior |
| humdrum | monotonous |