GRE Word List
OUTLANDISH
of or relating to another country : foreign
The meaning of the word outlandish is of or relating to another country : foreign.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| 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 |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |