GRE Word List
RESORT
one that affords aid or refuge : resource
The meaning of the word resort is one that affords aid or refuge : resource.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comprehensive | covering completely or broadly : inclusive |
| provenance | origin |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| 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 |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |