GRE Word List
PROWESS
distinguished bravery
The meaning of the word prowess is distinguished bravery.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| 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 |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |