GRE Word List
SOMNOLENT
of a kind likely to induce sleep
The meaning of the word somnolent is of a kind likely to induce sleep.
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| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| 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 |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |