GRE Word List
REGIME
regimen
The meaning of the word regime is regimen.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| witless | destitute of wit or understanding : foolish |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| 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 |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| haven | harbor |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |