GRE Word List
NURSE
a person who cares for the sick or infirm
The meaning of the word nurse is a person who cares for the sick or infirm.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| 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 |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| resign | relegate |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |