GRE Word List
MYRIAD
ten thousand
The meaning of the word myriad is ten thousand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| 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 |