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 |
|---|---|
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| 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 |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |