GRE Word List
RECIPROCAL
inversely related : opposite
The meaning of the word reciprocal is inversely related : opposite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repercussion | reflection |
| glib | showing little forethought or preparation : offhand |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| 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 |