GRE Word List
REPRIMAND
a severe or formal reproof
The meaning of the word reprimand is a severe or formal reproof.
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| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| 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 |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |