GRE Word List
NONSENSE
words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
The meaning of the word nonsense is words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| retrench | cut down |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| 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 |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |