GRE Word List
TERMINOLOGY
the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject
The meaning of the word terminology is the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| 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 |