GRE Word List
VANGUARD
the forefront of an action or movement
The meaning of the word vanguard is the forefront of an action or movement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| 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 |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |