GRE Word List
RENEGADE
a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
The meaning of the word renegade is a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| 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 |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| mischance | bad luck |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |