GRE Word List
SENTIENT
responsive to or conscious of sense impressions
The meaning of the word sentient is responsive to or conscious of sense impressions.
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| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
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| 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 |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| grudging | unwilling |
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| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
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