GRE Word List
REPINE
to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain
The meaning of the word repine is to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| opaque | blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity (see opacity |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| 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 |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |