GRE Word List
SOLITUDE
the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion
The meaning of the word solitude is the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| calculated | apt |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| 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 |