GRE Word List
OUTLOOK
a place offering a view
The meaning of the word outlook is a place offering a view.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| 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 |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |