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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oatmealmeal made from oats
lotterya drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance
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gyroscopea 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
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compulsionan act of compelling
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oracularresembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery)
boorpeasant
merita praiseworthy quality : virtue