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 |
|---|---|
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| 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 |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |