GRE Word List
OBSCURE
dark
The meaning of the word obscure is dark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| 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 |
| sophist | philosopher |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |