GRE Word List
PALLET
a straw-filled tick or mattress
The meaning of the word pallet is a straw-filled tick or mattress.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comprise | to be made up of |
| 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 |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |