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 |
|---|---|
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| 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 |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |