GRE Word List
ROTUNDA
a round building
The meaning of the word rotunda is a round building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| 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 |