GRE Word List
SCUTTLE
a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce)
The meaning of the word scuttle is a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| 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 |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |