GRE Word List
RICKETY
affected with rickets
The meaning of the word rickety is affected with rickets.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| 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 |