GRE Word List
PSYCHE
a princess loved by Cupid
The meaning of the word psyche is a princess loved by Cupid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| 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 |
| eventual | contingent |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| seemly | good-looking |
| notable | worthy of note : remarkable |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| acclaim | applaud |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |