GRE Word List
SURGE
to rise and fall actively : toss
The meaning of the word surge is to rise and fall actively : toss.
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| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
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| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| 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 |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |