GRE Word List
SUPERANNUATED
outmoded
The meaning of the word superannuated is outmoded.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| seemly | good-looking |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| 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 |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |