GRE Word List
OPALESCENT
reflecting an iridescent light
The meaning of the word opalescent is reflecting an iridescent light.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| fabricate | invent |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| 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 |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |