GRE Word List
STATELY
marked by lofty or imposing dignity
The meaning of the word stately is marked by lofty or imposing dignity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| abusive | using harsh, insulting language |
| 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 |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| boor | peasant |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |