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 |
|---|---|
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| 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 |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| addle | rotten |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |