GRE Word List
SUBSERVIENT
useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate
The meaning of the word subservient is useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| 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 |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| fauna | animal life |