GRE Word List
URCHIN
hedgehog
The meaning of the word urchin is hedgehog.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |
labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
representational | one that represents: such as |
uproarious | marked by uproar |
drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
pinnace | a light sailing ship |
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 |