GRE Word List
VIGILANT
alertly watchful especially to avoid danger
The meaning of the word vigilant is alertly watchful especially to avoid danger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| attire | to put garments on : dress |
| foppish | foolish |
| 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 |
| scion | descendant |
| osseous | bony |
