GRE Word List
OPPROBRIUM
something that brings disgrace
The meaning of the word opprobrium is something that brings disgrace.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| biennial | occurring every two years |
| 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 |
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| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |