GRE Word List
RUBRIC
an authoritative rule
The meaning of the word rubric is an authoritative rule.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| 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 |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |