GRE Word List
SCALE
an instrument or machine for weighing
The meaning of the word scale is an instrument or machine for weighing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rightful | just |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |