GRE Word List
SPECTRAL
of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly
The meaning of the word spectral is of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| seemly | good-looking |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| 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 |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |