GRE Word List
RARE
seldom occurring or found : uncommon
The meaning of the word rare is seldom occurring or found : uncommon.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| 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 |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |