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).
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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lout | to bow in respect |
trample | tramp |
degradation | the act or process of degrading |
resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
facade | the front of a building |
dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
piquant | engagingly provocative |
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 |
parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |