GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| recast | to cast again |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |