GRE Word List
RUBRIC
an authoritative rule
The meaning of the word rubric is an authoritative rule.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| exploit | deed |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| 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 |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |