GRE Word List
PEREGRINATION
to travel especially on foot : walk
The meaning of the word peregrination is to travel especially on foot : walk.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| 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 |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |