GRE Word List
PROPELLANT
capable of propelling
The meaning of the word propellant is capable of propelling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| forlorn | bereft |
| 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 |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |