GRE Word List
TRANSIENT
passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory
The meaning of the word transient is passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| 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 |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |