GRE Word List
TRILOGY
a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme
The meaning of the word trilogy is a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme.
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| 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 |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |