GRE Word List
RICKETY
affected with rickets
The meaning of the word rickety is affected with rickets.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| 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 |