GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| 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 |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| viable | capable of living |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |