GRE Word List
RETINUE
a group of retainers or attendants
The meaning of the word retinue is a group of retainers or attendants.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| consort | associate |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| ventilate | to expose to air and especially to a current of fresh air for purifying, curing, or refreshing |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| 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 |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |