GRE Word List

RAMIFICATION

branch

The meaning of the word ramification is branch.

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gyroscopea 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
grudgeto be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully
unimpeachablenot impeachable: such as
hiatusa break in or as if in a material object : gap
execrateto declare to be evil or detestable : denounce
repudiateto refuse to accept
sciondescendant
pronehaving a tendency or inclination : being likely
concordatcompact
weanto accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing