GRE Word List
SLEEPER
one that sleeps
The meaning of the word sleeper is one that sleeps.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| 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 |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |