GRE Word List
SPECTRUM
a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order
The meaning of the word spectrum is a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |