GRE Word List
SUBSEQUENT
following in time, order, or place
The meaning of the word subsequent is following in time, order, or place.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| seemly | good-looking |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |