GRE Word List
NOURISH
nurture
The meaning of the word nourish is nurture.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| 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 |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| farce | stuff |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |