GRE Word List

RICKETY

affected with rickets

The meaning of the word rickety is affected with rickets.

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confidencea feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances
permeablecapable of being permeated : penetrable
pushyaggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward
compassionsympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
nauticalof, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships
auspiciousshowing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious
dazeto stupefy especially by a blow : stun
gobbleto swallow or eat greedily
pernicioushighly injurious or destructive : deadly
gyroscopea 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