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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| Word | Meaning |
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| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| 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 |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| recast | to cast again |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |