GRE Word List
STATIC
exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion
The meaning of the word static is exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| drivel | nonsense |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| exploit | deed |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |