GRE Word List

PERSONABLE

pleasant or amiable in person : attractive

The meaning of the word personable is pleasant or amiable in person : attractive.

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homilya usually short sermon
gyroscopea 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
oddsthe probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances
alludeto make indirect reference
indecisiona wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution
fusilladea number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession
ricketyaffected with rickets
vulnerablecapable of being physically or emotionally wounded
ovoidresembling an egg in shape : ovate
propinquitynearness of blood : kinship