GRE Word List
PROTEAN
of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms
The meaning of the word protean is of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| 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 |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |