GRE Word List
ROSTER
a roll or list of personnel
The meaning of the word roster is a roll or list of personnel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| potentate | ruler |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| primal | original |