GRE Word List
ODOROUS
having an odor: such as
The meaning of the word odorous is having an odor: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| 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 |
| blanch | to take the color out of |