GRE Word List

SCHISM

division

The meaning of the word schism is division.

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WordMeaning
mustera representative specimen (see specimen
clairvoyanthaving clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception
sullyto make soiled or tarnished : defile
lecheryinordinate (see inordinate
canterone who uses cant: such as
immaculatespotlessly clean
chivalrousvaliant
anvila heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)
agnostica person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
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