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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chauvinistan attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex
witherto become dry and sapless
compulsivehaving power to compel
scantylimited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent
taintto contaminate morally : corrupt
derelictionan intentional abandonment
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
problematicposing a problem : difficult to solve or decide
syllogisma 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")
declivitydownward inclination