GRE Word List
SUPERSEDE
to cause to be set aside
The meaning of the word supersede is to cause to be set aside.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| 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 |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |