GRE Word List
ROOSTER
an adult male domestic chicken
The meaning of the word rooster is an adult male domestic chicken.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cryptic | secret |
| colander | a perforated utensil for washing or draining food |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| 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 |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |