GRE Word List
SANGUINE
marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic
The meaning of the word sanguine is marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| braid | to make from braids |
| 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 |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |