GRE Word List
PROPULSIVE
tending or having power to propel
The meaning of the word propulsive is tending or having power to propel.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| 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 |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |