GRE Word List
TREK
to make one's way arduously
The meaning of the word trek is to make one's way arduously.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| 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 |