GRE Word List
SLUGGARD
a habitually lazy person
The meaning of the word sluggard is a habitually lazy person.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| brook | creek |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| 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 |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |