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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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| trance | stupor |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| privy | private |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
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