GRE Word List
SERVILE
of or befitting a menial position
The meaning of the word servile is of or befitting a menial position.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| 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 |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |