GRE Word List
UTOPIA
a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions
The meaning of the word utopia is a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| 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 |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| slapdash | haphazard |