GRE Word List
STYGIAN
of or relating to the river Styx
The meaning of the word stygian is of or relating to the river Styx.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| enamored | affected by strong feelings of love, admiration, or fascination |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| 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 |
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