GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| 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 |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |