GRE Word List
VELOCITY
quickness of motion : speed
The meaning of the word velocity is quickness of motion : speed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| lunar | crescent |