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 |
|---|---|
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| 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 |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |