GRE Word List
NIRVANA
the final beatitude (see beatitude
The meaning of the word nirvana is the final beatitude (see beatitude.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| maroon | a dark red |
| impuissance | weakness |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| 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 |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |