GRE Word List
TERMINATION
end in time or existence : conclusion
The meaning of the word termination is end in time or existence : conclusion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| noisome | noxious |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| purported | reputed |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| 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 |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |