GRE Word List
SPURN
to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn
The meaning of the word spurn is to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| swill | wash |
| 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 |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |