GRE Word List

SCION

descendant

The meaning of the word scion is descendant.

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flushto fly away suddenly
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gustoan individual or special taste
improviseto compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously
hortatoryhortative
discordlack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
metallurgicalthe science and technology of metals
propsomething that props or sustains : support
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
defrockto deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office