GRE Word List
RAVENOUS
rapacious
The meaning of the word ravenous is rapacious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| 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 |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |