GRE Word List
RESILIENT
characterized or marked by resilience: such as
The meaning of the word resilient is characterized or marked by resilience: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| 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 |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| progeny | descendants |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |