GRE Word List
PALATIAL
of, relating to, or being a palace
The meaning of the word palatial is of, relating to, or being a palace.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| paradigm | example |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| scintilla | spark |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| 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 |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
