GRE Word List
NETHER
situated down or below : lower
The meaning of the word nether is situated down or below : lower.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| 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 |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |