GRE Word List
MOTLEY
variegated in color
The meaning of the word motley is variegated in color.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apropos | being both relevant and opportune |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| conformist | one who conforms : a person who behaves in accordance with prevailing standards or customs and typically dislikes or avoids unconventional behavior |
| 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 |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |