GRE Word List
TREATISE
a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached
The meaning of the word treatise is a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| 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 |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |