GRE Word List
POLARIZE
to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
The meaning of the word polarize is to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| 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 |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |