GRE Word List
RESCIND
to take away : remove
The meaning of the word rescind is to take away : remove.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| canine | a conical pointed tooth |
| 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 |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |