GRE Word List
STEEP
lofty
The meaning of the word steep is lofty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| 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 |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| venue | locale |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |