GRE Word List

SEMINARY

an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated

The meaning of the word seminary is an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated.

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solsticeeither of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21
integralessential to completeness : constituent
bidto offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance
desultorymarked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
presentimenta feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition
lateralof or relating to the side
bouillona clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef
zanyvery eccentric (see eccentric
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
impoverishto make poor