GRE Word List

VENERATE

to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference

The meaning of the word venerate is to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference.

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gyroscopea 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
irreverencelack of reverence
broodthe young of an animal or a family of young
juridicalof or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge
trancestupor
taperto become progressively smaller toward one end
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