GRE Word List
SHED
to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted
The meaning of the word shed is to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| epitome | a typical or ideal example : embodiment |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| rotunda | a round building |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| brook | creek |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| defer | put off |
| 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 |