GRE Word List
TURPITUDE
inherent baseness : depravity
The meaning of the word turpitude is inherent baseness : depravity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| 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 |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| dour | stern |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |