GRE Word List

NOVELTY

something new or unusual

The meaning of the word novelty is something new or unusual.

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WordMeaning
communalof or relating to one or more communes
torquea force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion
conteststrive
raveto talk irrationally in or as if in delirium
trimto remove by or as if by cutting
scholarlyof, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned
decorumliterary and dramatic propriety : fitness
repudiateto refuse to accept
blemishto spoil by a flaw
gyroscopea 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