GRE Word List
SWIPE
a strong sweeping blow
The meaning of the word swipe is a strong sweeping blow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| 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 |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| contrive | devise |
| encompass | include |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |