GRE Word List
SCION
descendant
The meaning of the word scion is descendant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| hortatory | hortative |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| 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 |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |