GRE Word List
SPOILSPORT
one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others
The meaning of the word spoilsport is one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| upright | perpendicular |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| 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 |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| aria | air |