GRE Word List
SCHISM
division
The meaning of the word schism is division.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| 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 |