GRE Word List

RUBRIC

an authoritative rule

The meaning of the word rubric is an authoritative rule.

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WordMeaning
potablesuitable for drinking
flaccidnot firm or stiff
piqueto excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff
exploitdeed
insubstantialnot substantial: such as
facilitateto make easier : help bring about
restivestubbornly resisting control : balky
mercenaryone that serves merely for wages
gyroscopea 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
compressto press or squeeze together