GRE Word List
PROPOUND
to offer for discussion or consideration
The meaning of the word propound is to offer for discussion or consideration.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| 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 |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |