GRE Word List
SUMMATION
the act or process of forming a sum : addition
The meaning of the word summation is the act or process of forming a sum : addition.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| resign | relegate |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| 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 |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |