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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| solstice | either 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 |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| 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 |
| impoverish | to make poor |