GRE Word List
STEADFAST
firmly fixed in place : immovable
The meaning of the word steadfast is firmly fixed in place : immovable.
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| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| 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 |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
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