GRE Word List
SEETHE
to suffer violent internal excitement
The meaning of the word seethe is to suffer violent internal excitement.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| 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 |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |