GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| muted | being mute : silent |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
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| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| 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 |