GRE Word List
RAMP
a sloping way or plane: such as
The meaning of the word ramp is a sloping way or plane: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| 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 |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |