GRE Word List
PITHY
consisting of or abounding in pith
The meaning of the word pithy is consisting of or abounding in pith.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| 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 |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| exegesis | exposition |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |