GRE Word List
SUITOR
one that petitions or entreats
The meaning of the word suitor is one that petitions or entreats.
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| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| vapid | lacking flavor, zest, interest, animation, or spirit : flat |
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| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| amity | friendship |
| 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 |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |