GRE Word List
RECTITUDE
the quality or state of being straight
The meaning of the word rectitude is the quality or state of being straight.
Random words
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| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| brooch | an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| 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 |