GRE Word List

OBITUARY

a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account

The meaning of the word obituary is a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account.

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WordMeaning
ejaculationan act of ejaculating
swaythe action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion
resumptionan act or instance of resuming : recommencement
permeablecapable of being permeated : penetrable
unaccountablenot to be accounted for : inexplicable
supplecompliant often to the point of obsequiousness
ponderousof very great weight
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
evasivetending or intended to evade : equivocal
deferput off