GRE Word List
NECTAR
the drink of the Greek and Roman gods
The meaning of the word nectar is the drink of the Greek and Roman gods.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| 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 |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| lunar | crescent |