GRE Word List
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reputed
The meaning of the word purported is reputed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| 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 |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |