GRE Word List
REMNANT
a usually small part, member, or trace remaining
The meaning of the word remnant is a usually small part, member, or trace remaining.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| 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 |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |