GRE Word List
TENTATIVE
not fully worked out or developed
The meaning of the word tentative is not fully worked out or developed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| refrain | curb |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| 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 |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |