GRE Word List
MONOCHROME
a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue
The meaning of the word monochrome is a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apoplexy | stroke |
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| warranted | sanction |
| 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 |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |