GRE Word List
VELOCITY
quickness of motion : speed
The meaning of the word velocity is quickness of motion : speed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |