GRE Word List
OUTSKIRTS
a part remote from the center : border
The meaning of the word outskirts is a part remote from the center : border.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| connoisseur | expert |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| 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 |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |