GRE Word List
RARE
seldom occurring or found : uncommon
The meaning of the word rare is seldom occurring or found : uncommon.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |
| innate | existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| 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 |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |