GRE Word List
QUEER
differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd
The meaning of the word queer is differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| 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 |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |