GRE Word List
SPORADIC
occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
The meaning of the word sporadic is occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| leave-taking | departure |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| 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 |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |