GRE Word List
PLUMMET
to fall perpendicularly
The meaning of the word plummet is to fall perpendicularly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| 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 |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| defalcate | deduct |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |