GRE Word List
SIGNIFICANT
having meaning
The meaning of the word significant is having meaning.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| 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 |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |