GRE Word List
RECITAL
a detailed account : enumeration
The meaning of the word recital is a detailed account : enumeration.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| 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 |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |