GRE Word List
VALID
having legal efficacy or force
The meaning of the word valid is having legal efficacy or force.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| 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 |
| trenchant | keen |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |