GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |
| 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 |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |