GRE Word List
SCHOLARLY
of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned
The meaning of the word scholarly is of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| 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 |