GRE Word List
PARTIAL
of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total
The meaning of the word partial is of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chivalrous | valiant |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| 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 |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |