GRE Word List
STEALTH
a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection
The meaning of the word stealth is a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection.
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| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ยน/โโ millimeter or less in diameter |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| 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 |
| pastry | a dough that is used to make pies and other baked goods and typically has a high fat content : paste |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
