GRE Word List
PARITY
the quality or state of being equal or equivalent
The meaning of the word parity is the quality or state of being equal or equivalent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| 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 |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |