GRE Word List
PRIM
to give a prim or demure expression to
The meaning of the word prim is to give a prim or demure expression to.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| 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 |