GRE Word List
SEISMIC
of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake
The meaning of the word seismic is of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| 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 |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| declivity | downward inclination |