GRE Word List
STACCATO
cut short or apart in performing : disconnected
The meaning of the word staccato is cut short or apart in performing : disconnected.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| 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 |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| trance | stupor |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |