GRE Word List
PARADOX
one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
The meaning of the word paradox is one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seemly | good-looking |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| 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 |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| limp | to walk lamely |