GRE Word List
RETRENCH
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| hue | overall character or appearance to the mind : complexion |
| 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 |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| indisputable | not disputable : unquestionable |