GRE Word List
REDRESS
to set right : remedy
The meaning of the word redress is to set right : remedy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
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| allude | to make indirect reference |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| 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 |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
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