GRE Word List
PUTRESCENT
undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid
The meaning of the word putrescent is undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| 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 |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |