GRE Word List
VIGOR
active bodily or mental strength or force
The meaning of the word vigor is active bodily or mental strength or force.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| ensconce | shelter |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| 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 |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |