GRE Word List
OFFICIOUS
volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome
The meaning of the word officious is volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| occident | west |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| warrant | sanction |
| exhume | disinter |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| 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 |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |