GRE Word List
ROSTER
a roll or list of personnel
The meaning of the word roster is a roll or list of personnel.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| cohorts | companion |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| 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 |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |