GRE Word List
RIGID
deficient in or devoid of flexibility
The meaning of the word rigid is deficient in or devoid of flexibility.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| 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 |
| residual | remainder |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |