GRE Word List
VENDETTA
blood feud
The meaning of the word vendetta is blood feud.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| visage | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| 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 |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |