GRE Word List
NOVELTY
something new or unusual
The meaning of the word novelty is something new or unusual.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| contest | strive |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| 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 |