GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| consort | associate |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| 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 |