GRE Word List

OSSEOUS

bony

The meaning of the word osseous is bony.

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gyroscopea 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
panderto act as a pander
recastto cast again
travailwork especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil
spoilsportone who spoils the sport or pleasure of others
infamoushaving a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil
discomfitto put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert
brittleeasily broken, cracked, or snapped
extraneousexisting on or coming from the outside
shudderto tremble convulsively : shiver