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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compriseto be made up of
gyroscopea 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
canarda false or unfounded report or story
colloquialused in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation
esotericdesigned for or understood by the specially initiated alone
genialitymarked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness
willowyabounding with willows
evanescenttending to vanish like vapor
machinationsan act of machinating
insinuateto impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply