GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
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|---|---|
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| 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 |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |