GRE Word List
PROJECTILE
a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia
The meaning of the word projectile is a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| 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 |
| devious | wandering |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| sophist | philosopher |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |